<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7653.38"> <TITLE>RE: [libvirt] how to install updated python bindings</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Visco - FYI - You should be able to build a custom rpm via 'make rpm' -----Original Message----- From: libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com on behalf of visco Sent: Fri 12/5/2008 1:05 AM To: Daniel P. Berrange; veillard@redhat.com Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [libvirt] how to install updated python bindings hi thanks Berrange ... after installing python development packages and setting the variables i am able to work out the trouble. @Veillard unfortunately i required some latest version,which is not provided yet as rpm, api for my needs, and hence started from source. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:40:55AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:44:17AM -0500, ente linux wrote: > > > hi > > > > > > i was trying to install libvirt 0.5 on my centos 5 machine which by > default > > > have libvirt 0.4. But after installing from the source of libvirt, > still the > > > output of i get from python remains that of 0.4 > > > >>>import libvirt > > > >>> libvirt.getVersion() > > > 4006 > > > > > > how could i install the new version... Do i need to give any option > while > > > configuring or making. > > > > If installing manually, configure will default to putting it in > /usr/local > > unless you give a different --prefix option. > > > > Python only looks in /usr by default, so when installing custom builds > > you'll need to set > > > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib > > export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages > > in general in an rpm based system it's best to upgrade at the rpm > level in my opinion, that avoids a lot of troubles, and it's possible > to go back without leftovers from previous attemps left and right... > > Daniel > > -- > Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit <A HREF="http://xmlsoft.org/">http://xmlsoft.org/</A> > daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine <A HREF="http://rpmfind.net/">http://rpmfind.net/</A> > <A HREF="http://veillard.com/">http://veillard.com/</A> | virtualization library <A HREF="http://libvirt.org/">http://libvirt.org/</A> > -- thanks and regards visco </BODY> </HTML>